San Francisco or Washington,DC

or Asia

The ACLU SoCal will be pursuing fellowships to address some, or all, of the following areas:

• Alternatives to policing, with a focus on racial and economic justice in traffic and transit enforcement
• Immigrants’ Rights
• Jails conditions and decarceration (seeking non-attorneys)
• LGBTQ, Gender Equity, and Reproductive Justice, with a focus on birth justice and the policing, surveillance, and punishment of BIPOC parents and their families via the child welfare system
• Voting Rights and First Amendment

Sacramento

San Diego   

Los Angeles  or

Oakland

DRC invites proposals related to the work of our Advocacy and Community Engagement Practice Group, which provides direct legal services to individuals with disabilities and conducts outreach, community organizing, and collaborates with other agencies on statewide projects.

The Advocacy and Community Engagement Practice Group is specifically looking for a fellow to help build a disaster response and emergency preparedness practice.

The fellowship’s goals are to address one or more of the following major categories impacting essential women workers:

• Work with Fair Wages: raising the minimum wage, abolishing the sub-minimum wage, equal pay for the same work, and ending wage theft;
• Work with Safety and Dignity: workplaces free of harassment, assault, retaliation, and silencing agreements;
• Work with Family: pregnancy accommodations, job-protected and paid leave, paid sick time, and access to affordable and quality childcare.

• inclusive and environmentally just land use planning
• safe and affordable drinking water and wastewaterservice
• affordable and clean transportation options
• clean air
• climate justice including a just transition
• energy equity
• sustainable agriculture
• quality affordable housing and fair housing choice
• transparent and inclusive governance.

Our Debtors’ Prison Project invites rising third-year law students and recent law graduates to apply for an opportunity to work with us as a legal Fellow.

Our Students’ Civil Rights Project (SCRP) invites rising third-year law students and recent law graduates to apply for an opportunity to work with us as a legal fellow on cutting-edge litigation and advocacy related to discrimination in schools. (Strong preference for this project to be based in the DC office)

San Francisco, CA

Berkeley, CA

Oakland, work may be performed remotely

August 12, 2021

New York, NY

Nashville, TN

Washington, DC

NYC Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, paid family leave, anti-discrimination, LGBTQ work-family issues, others

Nashville: unique Southern issues affecting working families, mobile clinic, pregnancy discrimination, breastfeeding protections

EJW; Skadden

EJW; Skadden

New York, NY

Washington, DC

EJW; Skadden; Other

Skadden; others

NO EJW

Arizona

EJW, Skadden, Justice Catalyst, others

Seeking to collaborate with up to two rising 3L or LLM students and/or recent law graduates. This year the Florence Project will consider fellowship proposals to fill critical community needs into the following areas:

Border Advocacy, Children's Rights, Crimmigration, Detained Migrant Women (Cis & Transgender), Detained LGBTQ+ Migrants, Due Process Issues, Mental Health Advocacy

Colorado

EJW, Skadden, Justice Catalyst, others

Connecticut

EJW, Skadden, others

Delaware

Skadden, EJW, Others

Project Citizenship

(Skadden Posting)

(EJW Posting)

Rian Immigrant Center 

EJW; Skadden; others

EJW; Skadden; others

NCLEJ welcomes new proposals for fellowship projects that fit within NCLEJ’s mission and areas of work. Some potential fellowship project areas may include:

• Advocacy to abolish driver’s license suspensions for unpaid child support obligations;
• Advocacy to end racial and income/wealth discrimination in access to utilities, such as water, internet, and electricity;
• Advancing the rights of workers in the Work Experience Program who are required to work in order to receive public benefits.

• Access to Meaningful and Appropriate Education 
• Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights
• Healthcare and Public Benefits
• Housing and Community Economic Development
• Stability and Independence for Survivors
• Meaningful Access to Justice
• Medical-Legal Partnership
• Reentering Citizens

Potential projects under consideration include the following:

• Reducing education barriers and promoting effective models for students who need mental health and behavioral health supports in schools, with a focus on Black girls
• Engaging in advocacy to promote equity in charter schools
• Reducing barriers and promoting effective models for non-traditional school settings, including virtual programming
• Promoting inclusive early learning opportunities for young children with disabilities, children experiencing homelessness, and children in foster care
• Engaging older youth, including youth who are unaccompanied homeless, undocumented, or pregnant/parenting, in meaningful educational opportunities that prepare them for college or career
• Reducing education barriers facing English Learner and immigrant students

L4GG will consider well-researched and impactful projects touching on any areas of L4GG’s focus, including rapid response delivery of legal services, immigrants rights, climate justice, racial justice, and supporting small businesses. We are open to both local, regional, or national projects. We are especially interested in the following types of projects:

• Projects that provide direct assistance to cities and other municipalities seeking to switch to renewable energy and lower their greenhouse gas emissions. 
• Projects that provide legal assistance to historically excluded communities impacted by climate change. 
• Projects that support systemic racial justice policy change. 
• Projects that mitigate direct harms stemming from racially discriminatory policies. 
• Projects that support immigrants’ rights and the rights of asylum seekers, both at our southern border (Brownsville Port of Entry) and within the US. If a Fellow would like to support our work at the southern border, they would likely need to be located near or in Brownsville, TX, or make frequent travel to the region. 
• Projects that support small businesses and nonprofits in historically excluded communities. 

One of L4GG’s key strategies is mobilizing remote pro bono attorneys from our network of more than 100 law firms and corporate legal departments and 125,000+ interested attorneys. As such, successful projects will include pro bono mobilization as a strategy.

1. Bexar County Access to Justice Project. Identify possible family law cases in Bexar County. Fellow will conduct limited appearances for pro se litigants facing roadblocks to justice, develop best practices related to limited appearances, develop training for bar associations on limited appearances, and will recruit pro bono attorneys for TAP to implement best practices. 
2. Hague Convention Attorney. We have started a comprehensive educational rubric on service of process. Fellow will partner with staff and outside organizations to finalize this rubric for distribution on sites, develop best practices, and train staff and possibly present at Poverty Law Conference.

HTI will work with the fellow to develop a project that will make them a competitive candidate for post-graduate fellowship funding. The project will further one or more areas of HTI’s operations, including:

• Performing research and writing articles, op-eds, and other scholarship on complex issues impacting human trafficking law;
• Tracking federal appellate decisions in human trafficking cases;
• Supporting HTI’s Amicus Project; and
• Contributing to the development and publication of the 2022 Federal Human Trafficking Report.

Skadden: EJW; Others

Skadden; EJW; Others

ACLU, National Prison Project 

EJW; Skadden, others

EJW; Skadden, others

Skadden; EJW

Skadden; EJW

 DCVLP is specifically interested in candidates for the following potential projects:

• A project focused on the intersection between gun violence and domestic violence. This position would include direct representation of low-income survivors of domestic violence in Protection Order, family law, and/or red flag law matters. The position may also include policy work centered on gun laws that impact survivors and other related advocacy.
• A project focused on mitigating the negative impacts that mental health issues can have on the well-being of vulnerable children who are the subjects of high-conflict custody cases. The work on this project would primarily entail serving as a guardian ad litem in family law matters where the child’s or the parties’ mental health challenges are a factor.